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Thanks to ephraimg who posted a good theory on the Isaac Clarke/Santa Claus page, suggesting that that single is probably 7022 but with the number changed to make it Christmassy. I posted the following reply there and am reposting here as it's more to do with the label than any one release.

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That's a good theory! Helps explain one of the gaps.

There are a number of oddities in the sequence, eg there's a 729 rather than 7029, there's one record that exists with two numbers (Don Pittman's St Louis Blues was released with both 7026 and 7027 labels, according to photos here; I've only ever seen the latter) and both Little Buck's Walking In the Mist and Kenneth Gillette's I'll Walk Back In were released as 7036. The Bobby Williams Group's Deatsie doesn't have a number on the label on the copy I've got nor any I've seen photos of, though it's listed here as 7023, likely based on the matrix numbers and the fact that there's no other 7023 turned up yet.

If this is effectively 7022 and I'll Walk Back In should maybe have been 7037 then we're just missing 7025 and 7032.

(Discogs doesn't list 7039, which is another Don Pittman - I Can't Believe You've Stopped Loving Me/Stand By Your Man, or 7042, which is by Pete Eveland & The Royal Canal Street Band Inc. - An Afternoon With Daisy/Drivin' Down To Dixie.)